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Topic: What do ypu do for Great Lent as a family? (Read 1733 times)

I was curious to see what other families do during Great Lent. I typically have a project or lental reading. Last year my boys and I built a prayer stand for the Icon Corner. This year I am going to have the boys pick there favorite quotes from a favorite saint and engrave it into the stand. We are also going to read "Called To Serve" by Fr. Peck. Peace to all.

I was curious to see what other families do during Great Lent. I typically have a project or lental reading. Last year my boys and I built a prayer stand for the Icon Corner. This year I am going to have the boys pick there favorite quotes from a favorite saint and engrave it into the stand. We are also going to read "Called To Serve" by Fr. Peck. Peace to all.

I am grown up & no longer live at home, but when I did we prayed the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian beofre going to bed as a family with the prostrations during Great Lent. Plus the fasting rules for food of course.

I am grown up & no longer live at home, but when I did we prayed the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian beofre going to bed as a family with the prostrations during Great Lent. Plus the fasting rules for food of course.[/quote]

We do the same as you do.. I love the St. Ephraim Prayer, it really stresses the need for physical and spiritual being while praying.

Nothing yet, though my girls are getting to the age when I think they could be more involved in stuff, so we may have to try something light/fun this year and see how it goes, and then maybe build on that. Perhaps read a passage from a spiritual work each week and then ask them what they think it means, and give my own thoughts, or something like that.

Is this where you cast beans about and try to read a message in how they land? Lent does seem to lend itself to such practices, such as when one of the children -- or one of the adults -- throws a plate across the room because they're tired of eating lentils.

I suppose I should think of a good Lenten course of action for this year. Last year we tried to add a little more prayer into our lives, but it was very difficult because Lent seems to be a difficult time as it is and we were approaching the end of our catechumenate, which I hear is almost universally a rough patch.

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